The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Summary

The most crucial in the plot in chapter one would be the introduction of characters. description is given to let us know who the characters are. It also shows us behaviors of characters.

Nick shows as Gatsby’s neighbor who recently moved from the Midwest to Long Island aiming to be a bond salesman. He talks of how he travels to see his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband whose name is Tom.

Nick describes tom as a hulking, imposing man that he knew in college. The Buchanans lived privileged.

Jordan Barker was a professional golfer. Nick meets her when he visits her cousin in the fashionable East Egg. Nick thinks that barker has a very modest way about her.

Nick noticed his neighbor, Gatsby, just standing awkwardly in darkness.

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The affair between these two show a major role in the book.

Nick meets tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson, when he gets off the train on the way to New York. She was a middle-class woman whose husband ran a gas station. All three of them were hanging out at her home.

George Wilson was a friend to Tom. He was friendly and welcomed tom into his home. He was a sweet man to him.

The valley of ashes, a run-down, ghostly, formerly developed piece of land that has been given up on, which marks the intersection of a city with the suburbs.

Drunkenness turns to fights and Tom breaks Myrtle's nose because they both wanted his wife.

CHAPTER THREE:

The most crucial aspect of the chapter is the relationship between Nick and Barker. It is a major part of the entire story. Another important aspect is the secret that Gatsby tells Baker.

Nick was honest and even said this about himself, "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known" Everyone else was dishonest.

Nick first sees Gatsby as a suspenseful neighbor. He says Gatsby seems distant from everyone. He was going to talk to her but felt she would distant herself from him

The jazz age refers to the generation that the author shows.

CHAPTER FOUR:

The meeting between Barker and Nick gives Nick the story that Gatsby had told her earlier. This starts the main idea of the story. The affection between the two is also very important.

As they are driving for lunch, Gatsby tells Nick that he wants to cancel any myths that Nick may have heard about him. Gatsby says that he came from a wealthy family from the Midwest. He said that his parents died and left him a ton of money. After that he went to war and lived in all of the cities and later went to Oxford College. Gatsby also tells Nick that he has a "big request" to make of him but that Jordan Baker will talk to him of it later. Nick is confused, but Gatsby will not talk anymore about the topic.

According to Jordan on the day before Daisy was supposed to get married, Daisy received a suspicious letter from someone. After reading it she told Jordan that she wasn't going to get married, but went through with it anyway. Gatsby would like for Nick to help him see Daisy again. He knew to get Daisy back he had to use Nick to help.

Daisy forgets about Gatsby when he goes for war.

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